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Robert Benton - what members say

Twilight review by from London

A feeble attempt at Film Noir 29 July 2004
...A first-rate cast are lumbered with a third-rate script in Robert Benton's tedious thriller. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a retired ex-cop, who, like all ex-cops in the mov... Read customer review

Bad Company review by from Berkshire

Here, rabbit, here 29 April 2005
...From the writer/director team of Robert Benton and David Newman, this is almost a junior showtime version of Bonnie and Clyde. A gang of young ne’er do wells, led by Jeff Br... Read customer review

Feast Of Love review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England

A bittersweet romantic drama 18 January 2008
...Director Robert Benton has only made 11 movies in 35 years. What is consistent with each of his films is the way he peels back the layers of humanity. He really explores the... Read customer review

Robert Benton - filmography

Feast Of Love (2007)
Starring: Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Morgan Freeman
Director: Robert Benton
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Love takes on many forms in an adaptation of Charles Baxter's celebrated novel. Starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, this drama shows various romances blooming--and dying--in a small town.

60% from 8,406 members
Not currently released

The Human Stain on DVD (2003)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris
Director: Robert Benton
Certificate:
Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth's 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production, with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a light-skinned African-American college professor who has kept his true racial identity secret for ..read more »

52% from 11,622 members

Twilight on DVD (1997)
Starring: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman
Director: Robert Benton
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Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, ..read more »

53% from 1,062 member

Nobody's Fool (1994)
Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith
Director: Robert Benton
Certificate:
Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when ..read more »

73% from 110 members
Currently unavailable

Billy Bathgate on DVD (1991)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis
Director: Robert Benton
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E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed novel forms the basis of BILLY BATHGATE, which stars Loren Dean as the title character. In the New York of 1935, the naive Bronx-born teenager wangles his way into the gang of his hero, crime boss Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman), as a gofer. Although the boy doesn't know it,..read more »

56% from 1,081 member

Polar Bear King on DVD (1991)
Starring: Jack Fjeldstad, Maria Bonnevie, Tobias Hoesl
Director: Robert Benton, Ola Solum
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A king is turned into a Polar Bear by a witch and must flee his kingdom to find a princess (in this case a Fox).Together they must defeat the witch.

50% from 5 members

Nadine on DVD (1987)
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges, Rip Torn
Director: Robert Benton
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When Nadine accidentally comes into possession of property map worth millions, Vernon (Bridges), her financially strapped husband, comes up with a plan to make a killing. Unfortunately so does BufordPope (Rip Torn), an unscrupulous businessman who'll stop at nothing to get the map. So as Vernon's ..read more »

53% from 63 members

Places In The Heart on DVD (1984)
Starring: Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich
Director: Robert Benton
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A woman and her two children struggle to survive in a small town in Texas, during the difficult Depression years.

66% from 279 members

Still of the Night (1982)
Starring: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy
Director: Robert Benton
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A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

60% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

Kramer vs Kramer - Blu-ray (1979)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry
Director: Robert Benton
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Joanna Kramer, a Manhattan housewife, can no longer face life with her husband Ted. She walks out leaving her son Billy in Ted's charge. Ted has to adjust his life and face up to his new found responsibilities. Just as he starts to find his feet, Joanna returns, intent on fighting for custody of ..read more »

78% from 484 members

Kramer vs Kramer on DVD (1979)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry, Meryl Streep
Director: Robert Benton
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Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin ..read more »

71% from 9,429 members

Bad Company (1972)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis
Director: Robert Benton
Certificate:
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Robert Benton's directorial debut stars Jeff Bridges as young con man Jake Rumsey in this highly original Western. After Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose ..read more »

63% from 463 members
Not currently released

Robert Benton facts

5 most recent films

Feast Of Love - 3.0 stars
The Human Stain - 2.5 stars
Twilight - 2.5 stars
Nobody's Fool - 3.5 stars
Billy Bathgate - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kramer vs Kramer - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Nobody's Fool - 3.5 stars
Kramer vs Kramer - 3.5 stars
Places In The Heart - 3.5 stars
Bad Company - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Polar Bear King - 2.5 stars
Still of the Night - 3.0 stars
Nadine - 2.5 stars
The Human Stain - 2.5 stars
Twilight - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jane Alexander - 3 times - show films
Dustin Hoffman - 3 times - show films
Meryl Streep - 3 times - show films
Jeff Bridges - 3 times - show films
Jerry Houser - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ola Solum - 1 times - show films